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“One of the Coalition policies most resented by Nationals backbenchers proposed that companies would be paid to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. With a budget of $2.55 billion over four years, the ‘Direct Action’ scheme was widely seen as a second-rate compromise that allowed the government to assert that it was fighting global warming while it abolished Labor’s emissions trading scheme. ‘That’s not going to change the temperature of the globe but it’s a lot of money at the moment,’ one Nationals MP said.”
Aaron Patrick, Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself

“The scheme was a fascinating mix of traditionalism, elitism, feminism and socialism.”
Aaron Patrick, Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself

“On a flight back from Afghanistan, where he’d been visiting Australian soldiers, Abbott said something indiscreet to Channel Seven correspondent Mark Riley – and Credlin kicked him in the shin. Another time she placed her hand in front of his mouth, mid-sentence, to stop him giving away something to a reporter.”
Aaron Patrick, Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself

“In 2015 one of the most powerful jobs in the bureaucracy, that of cabinet secretary, went to a public relations executive, Matthew Stafford, who thus had access to cabinet meetings.”
Aaron Patrick, Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself

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“when 1500 scientists, including 100 Nobel Laureates, petitioned the world in 1995 that serious remedies were required to halt the destruction of the living fabric of the Earth, their warning was ignored. Had it been 1500 economists warning of a stock market crash it would have got banner headlines and emergency government action.”
Robert James Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action

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